Today I was on Youtube.com watching Joseba Beloki’s horrific 2003 Tour de France crash… a brutal, high speed wreck that essentially ended the career of a great tour rider. Lance fans often look back at the crash as the moment Lance saved his 2003 bid with a brilliant piece of off-road riding. I personally view Lance’s actions as a great piece of heads-up riding, and a lesson to be learned for the rest of us.
After I finished with the Belocki video, I found the compilation below….
A lot of roadies watch these videos, cringe a little, and laugh, without much reflection…. Hopefully in the “off-season,” Team Ixion riders will watch them, cringe a bit, and gain a strong respect for what can go wrong in the midst of a race/ride. The majority of the riders who started in the main pack at this year’s Gateway MS 150 witnessed a rider being rushed into an ambulance, neck in brace, secured to a gurney – about five miles into the ride – it looked brutal.
This compilation is composed entirely of Tour de France footage… in other words, these are the best riders in the world… losing control, bikes sliding out from under them, and sometimes, making HUGE mistakes. If it can happen to these guys, the elite in the cycling world, it can definitely happen to any of us.
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